The Role of Domestic Food Production in Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Ukraine

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ID8378352
AutoresJohn Round (0000-0003-0005-2348, University of Sheffield), Colin C Williams (0000-0002-3610-1933, University of Sheffield), Colin Williams (0009-0006-1901-050X), Peter Rodgers (0000-0002-6108-5111, University of Sheffield)
Año2010
Volumen100
Número5
Páginas1197-1211
Fecha de publicación2010-10-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00045608.2010.520214
OpenAlexW2093312028
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas41

The Soviet Union's collapse brought economic uncertainty to many Ukrainians. Approximately 20 percent of the population, 10 million people, currently survive on incomes below the state-set subsistence minimum figure. Given the unrealistic nature of this state-produced definition, “poverty” levels are in reality much higher. A distinctive feature of this marginalization is its longevity, as seventeen years since the dismantling of the command economy relatively few feel the benefits of marketization. As Burawoy (2001) noted, the very fact that few people have starved to death during this period indicates that other economic practices must be in operation to ensure households survive. Therefore, there is a need to explore how people (re)structure their everyday lives in response to economic marginalization. Revealing such practices demonstrates the multiplicity of forms that economic marginalization can take, the relationships between formal and informal economies, the exploitation of marginalized groups, new spaces of resistance, and the potential impact of state reforms. Although there is an emerging literature qualitatively exploring the coping tactics developed as in response to economic marginalization, there has been little qualitative examination of the role that domestically produced food plays within this broad spectrum of practices. This article begins to fill this lacuna by exploring the various roles that the dacha, a plot of rural land given to households during the Soviet period, plays in everyday life

Agriculture · China · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Everyday life · Geography · Market economy · Marketization · Political economy · Political science · Population · Poverty · Sociology · Standard of living · Subsistence agriculture · Organic Food and Agriculture · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition · Rural development and sustainability